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   TTimo (ttimo@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 06:02:48 JST TTimo

   Valve is seeing an increasing number of bug reports for issues caused by Canonical's repackaging of the Steam client through snap.

   The best way to install Steam on Debian and derivative operating systems is to follow the instructions at https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/#getting-started and use the official .deb

   We are not involved with the snap repackaging. It has a lot of issues.

   If you don't want the .deb, please at least consider the flatpak version.

   #steam #ubuntu #snap #flatpak

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     Joshua Ashton 🐸✨ (frog@idtech.space)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 06:03:47 JST Joshua Ashton 🐸✨

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     @TTimo This has affected people internally too. I had to spend far too long trying to figure out why SteamVR was not working for someone, turns out they were using the Snap which is the default on the store + apt!
     
     Ubuntu forwarding apt -> snap for certain package names is prime what-the-fuck-ery and actively hostile design.
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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 20:42:39 JST Børge

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     • Cassidy James :ea: :gg: :fh:

     @cassidy @TTimo See also https://mastodon.social/@TTimo/109895330902874607

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     Cassidy James :ea: :gg: :fh: (cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 20:42:40 JST Cassidy James :ea: :gg: :fh:

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     Hey @TTimo, volunteer for Flathub here. Do you happen to recall the concerns or have a link discussing them that I can share with the Flatpak and Flathub teams? It would be great to learn if/where the tech falls short to see if we could remedy it. :)

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     TTimo (ttimo@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 20:42:41 JST TTimo

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     • Sheep

     @SheepZone it's not officially supported either, but I hear it fares much better. Last time we looked at it there were concerns about performance overhead in some situations.

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     Sheep (sheepzone@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 20:42:44 JST Sheep

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     @TTimo Is the Flatpak version considered to work fine or on par with the .deb version?